The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1887-11-03
GENERAL NEWS.
Doings Throughout the World and
the Nation.
Items Taken From the Latest 1eie-
graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.

graphic Reports on Subjects
of Interest.
The Spanish steamer Panama is ashore
off st. Sebastian, Fla.
The loss by the recent floods in Cub a
is estimated at over 100000.
Mrs. James Brown Potter made her
American debut at the Fifth Avenue
theatre, New York, last Monday.
The flagship of the Russian Pacific
squadron, is ashore on the rocks at
Viadinstock, near Shanghai, China.
Count DeLesseps has announced to the
academy Of science that the Panama
canal will be opened February 3, 1890.
Andrew Carnegie's book, democracy
Tr iumphant,' will probably be tabooed
in Wolverhampton, England, as a libel
on the queen.
The Steamship Vernon, of tie North
ern Michigan Line was wrecked on Lake
Michigan last week and all on board
lost.
New placer diggings have been found
on the tributaries of Kaniscu lake, in
northern Idaho. The streams have
plenty of water.
James r. Whitley, brother of the great
reaper manufacturer, committed suicide
last Monday, at Springfield, Ohio, by
shooting himself through the head.
The Athletic base ball club has been
sold to a stock company, composed en-
tirely of Philadelphians The capital
stock Of the new company is $5G,000.
The actual yield of wheat in Dakota
and Minnesota is reported to be S6,OO0.-
600 bushels, which will give surplus OF
Il, ,OCO.OOO bushels.
Mormon brethren have applied to the
porte for permission to establish a COM
nunity in Turkey It is expected that
the request will be granted.
The story that the cause Of Jay Go1lld's
contemplated trip to Europe lies in the
threatening letters asking him to help
the anarchists is pronounced absurd.
Henry q. Lincoln, a member Of the
Massachusetts legislature, who was iden.
titled with number Of large enterprises
committed suicide at Brockton, Mass.
last week.
At a meeting of Typographical Union
No. 49 last Saturday evening it was
agreed to adopt the nine-hour system. A
reduction was made in the schedule
prices from $21 per week to $40.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany has made reduction of 20 per cent
in ten word dispatches between New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washing
ton, Chicago and st. Louis
Charleston's gala week opened las
Monday. The city was brilliantly decor
ated, and preparations we're made for th,
celebration of the earthquake jubilee IL
grand style.
The Third National bank of St. Pau
goes into liquidation this week. It i
stated the bank is perfectly solvent, ane
that the depositors will be paid dolla
for dollar. The deposits reach S200,0N
The capital is S5CCG00.
At negro camp meeting near Brigh
ton, S. c.. Thursday night, number o
drunken men disturbed the services, ant
free fight ensued, in which razors, pis
tolls and clubs were used. Tho result o
the affray is one man dead, six dying ant
about twenty-five more Or less injured.
A special to the New Orleans Picayun
from Franklin says the rumors whic
have been rife for some days that strik
was to be inaugurated by the Knights c
Labor plantation hands in this and ad
iacent parishes are known to be we
founded.
". H. Reynolds, editor of the Ashlan
(Ohio) Times, was shot and Instant
killed in Justice Court at Cleveland, q
last week by James r. Mason. Th
shooting was tho indirect result of
newspaper quarrel.
The steamer Zealandia, from Aus trail
brings news of the surrender of Malieto
the native king of the Samoan islands t
, the German officials. Malietoa says b
was deserted by the American and Ems
lish consuls, whose advice he had TO
flowed.
An explosion of gasoline in the rear {
Micheal Newman's grocery store in S
Louis, lifted two-story building from il
foundation and dropped it back again i
), mass of ruins, beneath which wei
buried seventeen persons Eight wei
killed and three seriously wounded.